precarity
nounEtymology
From precar(ious) + -ity (suffix forming nouns from adjectives denoting the properties, qualities, or states of the adjectives), probably modelled after French précarité (“precariousness; existence without financial or social security”). Compare New Latin precārietās.
Definitions
Synonym of precariousness (“the state of being uncertain or unstable”)
Synonym of precariousness (“the state of being uncertain or unstable”); (countable) an instance of this.
- She looks at him, his round cheeks, his eyelashes, his damp hair. Does the boy sense, already, the precarity of all this?
The condition of existence without predictability or security, thus affecting material or…
The condition of existence without predictability or security, thus affecting material or psychological welfare; (countable) an instance of this.
- The individual precarity of persons thus provides a psychology for, a sense of plausibility for, a doctrine of collective precarity, thereby justifying a pseudo-unity under the nation state.
The neighborhood
- neighborprecariat
- neighborprecarization
- neighborprecarized
- neighborprecarioussee
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for precarity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA